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  2. NetBackup™ for MongoDB Administrator's Guide
  3. Overview of protecting MongoDB using NetBackup
  4. Limitations
NetBackup™ for MongoDB Administrator's Guide

Limitations

Consider the following limitations before you deploy the MongoDB plug-in:

  • For highly available MongoDB cluster, if fail-over happens during a backup, then the job fails.

  • IP address is not supported for the application server and backup host field. You must enter the FQDN, host name, or the short name of the application server or the backup host.

  • Encrypted MongoDB environments are not supported.

  • English-only MongoDB environments are supported.

  • Extended Access Control Lists (ACL) are not recovered after a recovery operation.

  • Recovery is not supported for a shrunk MongoDB cluster.

  • For standalone MongoDB nodes without replica sets, incremental backups are not supported.

  • Protection of MongoDB environments that are deployed or managed using the MongoDB Ops Manager is not supported.

  • If you change the Feature Compatibility Version between the full and differential incremental backups, the backups fail.

  • The backup of a sharded MongoDB environment can be taken only as a sharded backup configuration and not a replica set or any other backup configuration.

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